More Rally Suspensions
Dear Members
We held our virtual Committee meeting on the evening of 8th March and discussed the ongoing situation with regard to when rallies may commence again. As promised, an update is provided as below:
Following the Governments recent road-map out of lockdown (22 Feb) and the Club’s announcement (24 Feb) that UK Club sites would open on 12th April and that “rallies can commence but as a Campsite only and all members must comply with the Government’s guidance regarding social contact, and group size outdoors”, the Committee have considered the published information regarding the various Steps.
As HQ also confirmed it is down to the Centre to “make an informed decision before deciding when to commence rallying, mindful that the dates could change”, and as Step 2 only allows for “Rule of 6 outside”, the Committee decided by majority vote that rallying will commence no earlier than 17th May (Step 3).
Therefore, the following rallies will now be cancelled:
Rally Suspensions:
- Rally No 12 – East Ashling Nurseries (29th April to 4th May)
- Rally No 13 – Stedham Mill Farm (30th April to 3rd May)
- Rally No 15 – Orchard Farm (7th May to 9th May) has been cancelled by the landowner
- Rally No 16 – Hayling Island (14th May to 16th May)
- Rally No 23 – Henley Royal Regatta (29th June to 5th July) as Regatta is cancelled, the Rally Officers asked for rally to be cancelled.
These had already been advised as cancelled:
- Rallies 9 (Easter), 10 (Awbridge) and 11 (Little Metlands) in April are cancelled
- Rally 14 – Dornafield (5th May to 12th May) has been cancelled by the landowner
- Rally 17 – National Rally (May) has been cancelled by CAMC
- Rally 24 – Near The Park (2nd July to 4th July) has been cancelled by the landowner.
We appreciate this will be a huge disappointment to all. It will take a couple of days for Committee to update the website and centrally manage the notification cancellation emails to any member booked on these rallies, so please bear with us.
Looking forward, this means our first rally would potentially be Rally 18 (Chideock) 28th May – 6th June. However, with 51 existing bookings, it is clear that attendance numbers will exceed the Govt restriction of “30 person limit outdoors” and we may need to restrict numbers – so online booking for Chideock will now show as FULL. We must advise now that the landowner will not permit any marquees/gazebos or any socials and have requested that numbers are limited.
We will therefore keep the Dog House Farm rally under review and a decision will be made at the next committee meeting on 12th April on HOW it could take place safely. By this time, we should all have a better idea of how the National rollout is progressing, and whether local views have changed.
Step 4 – Rallies after 21 June
Assuming the Govt timeline is followed and all restrictions are lifted, the remainder of our 2021 programme should hopefully be able to go ahead from this date.
Rally 22 (RVCP – Play in the Park) has been extended and will now be a holiday rally from 23-30 June and is therefore open straight away for booking online.
Online booking will be opened for all other remaining rallies until the end of the year, week beginning 23 March. With an ever changing position, we hope you will appreciate that any bookings will be subject to change at short notice and as previously advised, we ask that no paper bookings are submitted.
Rally Officers
….are still required for Hurn Equestrian Centre (31 Aug – 6 Sep) and Orchard Farm (15-17 Oct).
If you are interested in running either of these, please get in touch asap – as if no one comes forward, then unfortunately, these too will have to be cancelled.
2021 Rally Books
As previous advised, these are available to buy & be posted to you. Please login to the website and follow the instructions for payment on the “2021 Rally Book Order Form” that can be found under the Rallies or Members Menu.
Stay Safe
Graham & Committee